This truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life, which God—who does not lie—promised them before the world began.
(Titus 1:2 NLT)
How is it that God promised His people something before the world began? Did He promise Himself in our stead until we could hear or did He speak to us directly? We debate with abortionist that life begins at conception; they argue it begins at birth but what if both sides are wrong?
"I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as My prophet to the nations."
(Jeremiah 1:5 NLT)
King David said of the Lord that His eyes saw David’s unformed body and all the days ordained for him were written in His book before one of them came to be (Psa 139:16), pointing out that we have been created before being born. We are made in God’s image, is God flesh and blood? Jesus is God made man being born of the virgin Mary but that is not when He began, for God has no beginning and no end, He is the Great I Am. God is not created but the Creator. We being His creation did have a beginning but it was not at conception or even at birth but sometime before.
So God created human beings in His own image. In the image of God He created them; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground."
(Genesis 1:27-28 NLT)
The Bible says God created human beings in His own image. Notice “human beings” is plural, we are all created in God’s image, and He created every one of us. Then God blessed them (Adam and Eve), telling them to be fruitful and multiply. Indicating those whom He created had not yet been born but still they had already begun, awaiting their mission. As we are born we lose the ability to remember what was before but that does not release us of the responsibility given to be carried out in this life. How might we do that task if we can’t remember what it was we are to do? As children we dreamed of what we wanted to be, remember, but as we became adults that dream became more and more distant as we were faced with the “reality” of a career, a place to live, transportation, bills, food, clothing, a family, and many, many other things and the enemy played his part with the wound while we were yet vulnerable, assuring that dream is all but abandoned. What if that dream was remnants of the task that was given to us by God, before we were born and the only way to rediscover it was to awaken from the slumber of this life and follow the leading of God’s Holy Spirit? What if our eternal spirits praised and worshipped God because He created us and in response we said that we loved Him and He said, “prove it” and then we were born in flesh and blood but as we passed through that portal we also started with a clean slate, not remembering the promise we made? So God sent His Son to remind us and show us how to live and love, then He died and was resurrected and returned to the Father but before He left He gave us a promise, that His Holy Spirit would be with us reminding us who we are and who’s we are, yet there were promises yet to be discovered. As we follow God’s Holy Spirit He leads us to fulfill the promise we made when the world was just beginning.
So many people get hung up on the trappings of this world but God told Isaiah, the prophet, to remind the people that they are like grass which withers and their beauty fades quickly like flowers in a field (read Isaiah 40). We become so consumed by being consumers, we hoard and lay up treasures when all along we become blind and deaf to the call of God’s Holy Spirit and for what purpose? Even before this life is over we grow tired of the toys we work so hard to obtain and before long we are putting all our efforts into the next new thing that promises happiness. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over but expecting different results, do we not all do this at least once in our life? Those who are wise, those who’s spirits are reminded of the promise, will stop the mindless chase and begin the journey home. For time is short and we have yet to prove what we said was true. This journey home begins with a turning from our will to His, as king David realized his best was not good enough he cried out to the Lord, “But You desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there. Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.” (Psa 51:6-7). It’s only in this state of mind that we can make real progress, so be encouraged, God is with us and if we are careful to listen He will guide our steps assuring life to the fullest!
